Thank God Hasegawa give you spare parts!

[spellbinder99]

Well, I just got the Hasegawa VF-1A low-viz kit in the mail from Hong Kong. Unfortunately, a combination of poor packaging and a rough mail system here in Oman meant the outside box was thinner through than the thckness of the Hasegawa box inside.

The box inside was REALLY flat!!

It is a really good thing I:

A/ Did not pay too much for the kit and

B/ Bought it to build not collect.

Suprisingly, most of the contents were OK, but a few parts were showing stress marks in the plastic and had been a wee bit flattened.

The upper half of the center fuselage in particular no longer fit well to the lower half.

Luckily, pretty much every two seat Valkyrie kit has that part as surplus due to sprue duplication, so an allready started VF-1D kit provided a replacement part straight away.....

I am glad that Hasegawa does provide these extra parts as they provide usefull practise pieces and as in this case, can save an otherwise trashed kit....

Cheers

Tony